Hello and welcome to this special post-election podcast from the London Review of Books.

I am James Butler here to reflect on an extraordinary night in UK politics.

Kirstarmer's Labour Party has triumph as it stands now about 11am-ish.

They've won 412 seats in the House of Commons and they'll have a huge majority somewhere around

175, slightly short of Tony Blair's victory in 1997. But compared to the result of the last election

in 2019, an unprecedented change in the makeup of Parliament. The Conservatives have experienced

probably the worst defeat in their history, depending on how you look at it, certainly worse even than Balfour.

They've lost 250 MPs and been reduced to 121 seats.

The Liberal Democrats are the third biggest party in Parliament again.

They've got 71 seats, an increase of 63.

And the Scottish National Party, who were the third largest party at

Westminster, have slumped to just nine seats, losing 38 constituencies in Scotland, mainly to

labour. The Reform Party, who attracted over four million votes, about half a million more than

the Liberal Democrats, have won four seats, including one for Nigel Farage,

elected as an MP for the first time in Clacton.

The Greens have quadrupled their seat count.

They now also have four MPs,

and Clyde Cymry now have four seats as well.

They've doubled their MPs in Wales,

where the Conservatives have been completely annihilated.

In Northern Ireland, Sinn Féin are now the largest party and a slight increase in vote share.

And it's also been a knight of many individual stories as well.

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